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ALLISON HAS 5 TIMES AS MANY BASEBALL CARDS AS FOOTBALL CARDS

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Allison Loves Collecting Sports Cards

Allison is a huge sports fan and has been an avid collector of baseball and football cards since she was just 5 years old. She loves learning about the players, their stats, and following her favorite teams. Every birthday and holiday, Allison asks for sports card packs to add to her growing collections. Over the years, her baseball and football card collections have grown tremendously.

Recently, Allison decided she wanted to take inventory of exactly how many cards she has in each collection. She pulled out all her baseball cards and started counting. It took her over an hour but when she was done she had counted a total of 125 baseball cards. “Wow, I have way more baseball cards than I thought,” she said to herself.

Next, Allison moved on to counting her football cards. This collection was smaller so it didn’t take as long but when she finished tallying them all up she had only 25 football cards. Allison realized right away that she had five times as many baseball cards as football cards.

Let’s break this down step-by-step:

Allison counted that she had 125 baseball cards
She counted that she had 25 football cards
To determine if one amount is 5 times greater than the other, we set up a ratio:
Baseball cards (125) to Football cards (25) is 125:25
To check if it is a 5:1 ratio, we divide the larger number by the smaller number:
125/25 = 5
Since the result is an integer (5), we can say that 125 is indeed 5 times greater than 25.
Therefore, the statement “Allison has 5 times as many baseball cards as football cards” is true.

Now let’s think about how Allison’s card collections may have grown to be this way:

As many kids do, Allison likely started out with a relatively even interest in both baseball and football when she was very young. As she got a bit older her interests likely expanded more towards baseball. There are a few potential reasons why:

Exposure – Allison’s local Little League likely had more participants than her local youth football league. Being around more baseball playing peers could have increased her interest level.

Family – It’s possible Allison’s parents, siblings, or other relatives were also bigger baseball fans which could have influenced her naturally. Kids often share interests with family members.

Popularity – Baseball generally has higher youth participation numbers than football in many areas of the country. Its easier accessibility at younger ages may have attracted Allison’s initial interest more.

Timing of Seasons – Baseball season runs in the spring and summer when kids are out of school. This allows for more flexible participation. Football season overlaps the start of the school year making practice/games logistically tougher.

With her growing interest in baseball over time, it makes sense that Allison would ask for and receive more baseball cards in her packs each year compared to football cards. This snowball effect allowed her baseball collection to greatly outpace the growth of her football collection.

Of course, it’s also possible that Allison simply preferred the players, teams, or action of baseball slightly more than football on an individual level. Different kids naturally gravitate towards different sports. Regardless of the specific reasons, the numbers don’t lie – Allison definitely has accumulated five times as many baseball cards compared to her football cards.

At this point in her collecting career, Allison has amassed a sizable sports card collection spanning two major sports. As her interests continue to expand and change over the coming years, it will be interesting to see if the ratio of her baseball to football cards remains the same or shifts in some way. One thing is for certain – Allison’s love of sports and collecting cards shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon!

ALLISON HAS 5 TIMES AS MANY BASEBALL CARDS

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Allison has been an avid collector of baseball cards since she was 5 years old. She first started getting interested in baseball after her older brother joined a little league team. Allison would go to all of her brother’s games and became fascinated by the sport. For her 5th birthday, her grandparents got her her first pack of baseball cards and she was instantly hooked.

Over the past 10 years, Allison’s collection has grown tremendously. She loves learning about different players, both past and present, and enjoys tracking players’ careers and stats as she adds to her collection year after year. Allison spends a good portion of her allowance each week buying new packs of cards at the local sporting goods store. She also loves going to card shows in her area where she can search through boxes and boxes of loose cards to find players she doesn’t already have in her collection.

Allison takes very good care of her cards. She stores them all safely in multiple baseball card binders that she keeps neatly organized on a shelf in her room. Each player has their own page protected by a plastic sleeve and Allison takes the time to categorize the cards by team and position. This makes it easy for her to look up stats and information on any given player in her collection. Allison also keeps detailed inventory lists of which cards she does and does not have so she knows what to look for when adding to her collection.

In total, after collecting for 10 years, Allison estimates she has around 2,500 individual baseball cards in her collection. This includes stars both past and present from every MLB team. Some of her most prized possessions include a rare Mike Trout rookie card, a signed card of her favorite player Babe Ruth, and a complete set of cards from the 1987 Topps set which was the first set she ever started collecting as a kid. Allison’s collection continues to grow larger each year as she finds creative ways to earn and save money to fuel her passion.

Allison’s best friend Emily has also started to get interested in baseball over the past couple years after coming over to Allison’s house and seeing her impressive collection. Emily enjoys looking through Allison’s cards and learning about the sport and different players. Since Emily is newer to collecting, her collection pales in comparison to Allison’s 10 years of accumulation. Emily estimates she has around 500 cards that she has acquired over the past 2 years from packs and some loose cards at card shows.

During their last school year, Allison mentioned to Emily that she has about 2,500 baseball cards. Emily was amazed at the size of Allison’s collection after collecting for so many more years. But then Allison added that based on how often Emily comes over to look through the cards with her, she estimates that Emily has about 5 times fewer cards than Allison. This was a real eye-opener for Emily. If Allison has 2,500 cards and Emily has 5 times fewer, that would mean Emily’s collection is only around 500 cards. Emily was surprised that her collection was so much smaller than Allison’s even after collecting for a couple years herself. It really put into perspective how much Allison’s 10 years of dedicated collecting has allowed her collection to grow exponentially larger.

From there, Emily became even more motivated to grow her own baseball card collection. She started saving more of her allowance each week to buy packs of cards. She also began going to more card shows in the area with Allison to search for deals on loose cards to add to her collection. Emily started keeping better inventory lists like Allison does to track which cards she needs. In just one year of more focused collecting, Emily was able to double the size of her collection to over 1,000 cards. While she still has a long way to go to catch up to Allison’s decade of accumulation, Emily is enjoying the hobby more and more. She finds she is learning the sport and players at a quicker rate now and loves being able to discuss cards and stats with Allison. Someday, Emily hopes that with many more years of dedicated collecting, her collection will come close to rivaling Allison’s immense collection. But for now, she is content focusing on growing her knowledge of the game and players through building her baseball card collection, even if it is only about 5 times smaller than her best friend Allison’s.